palely

pale +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /peɪl.li/

palely (comparative more palely, superlative most palely)

1. In a pale manner; lightly.
   • 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci, stanza 1:

     O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, / Alone and palely loitering? / The sedge has withered from the lake, / And no birds sing.

   • 1907, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, A Fountain Sealed‎, Chapter:

     The people are palely prosperous. They lead monotonous lives.

   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers‎, Part Two:

     It was a warm dark night of faint clouds through which the moon shone palely as through a thin silk canopy.

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “palely”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.